Plasma

Microsoft built a ‘Plasma Bot’ to tell you if you can donate plasma to help fight COVID-19

Plasma taken from the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients stands a real chance of being one of the more effective short-term measures feasible in the ongoing effort to control the global coronavirus

FDA debuts new online portal to encourage donation of plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients

One of the avenues currently being pursued in terms of developing an effective treatment for COVID-19 is through the use of convalescent plasma. Basically, that means using the liquid component of blo

Emergent BioSolutions gets $14.5M in federal funding to expedite COVID-19 plasma therapy development

Last week, we spoke to the head of Emergent BioSolutions’ Therapeutics Business Unit Dr. Laura Saward about her company’s work developing plasma-based potential treatments for COVID-19. No

FDA warning brings controversial young blood transfusion company to a halt

On Tuesday, the FDA issued a warning to anyone who might be inclined to give their old bones a jolt with fresh blood harvested from the young. The idea is pretty far from mainstream, even in Silicon V

Panasonic To Start Selling 103-Inch 3D Display For $100,000

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-21.png" /> Are you a fan of big displays, and maybe 3D? And do you happen to have $100,000 to spare? Then the TH-P103MT2 might b

Panasonic Japan announces two 3D plasma TVs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/panasonic_3d.png" /> And yet another <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/3d/">3D</a> news item from Japan. This time, it's Panasonic,

Kansai Airport now home to the world's largest curved plasma

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/plasma-620x255.jpg">That right there? Yeah, it's the world's largest curved plasma screen. Betcha you didn't even know that plasma screen

Hitachi Japan rolls out 11 new plasma and LCD TVs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/hitachi_woo-620x290.png" /> <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/09/not-3d-but-pretty-too-sonys-seven-new-lcd-tvs/">Last week</a>

This hand sanitzer uses plasma, for cleaning

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/plasma.jpg" />The New York Times highlights the development of a new type of hand sanitizer, primarily developed for hospitals, that uses

Dentists to replace drills with plasma jets

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/plasma-drill-100204-02.jpg" />I can't believe how great this idea sounds. Instead of using the old-school (as in patented in 1887) drill

Panasonic to sell plasma TVs with 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/panasonic_g2_series_tv_plasma-620x465.jpg" /> Panasonic still believes in plasma. The company, which <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/

The World Spent $112 Billion On 205 Million TVs This Year: 69 Percent Were LCD TVs.

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/viziojava-215x161.jpg" width="215" height="161" /> LCD TVs have taken over the world. Market research firm <a href="http://www.displaysear

Hitachi announces 5 full HD TVs with built-in 500GB HDD

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hitachi_wooo_plasma-620x465.jpg" /> There is a clear trend in Japan, where all the relevant new TVs come from, and that's building devic

Panasonic develops 85-inch full HD plasma TV

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/panasonic_85_inch_plasma.jpg" /> Even though LCD is clearly the dominant technology in the TV market, Panasonic still believes in the me

Panasonic Japan announces new VIERAs with built-in HDDs

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/viera_r_series-620x454.jpg" /> <a href="http://panasonic.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn090602-1/jn090602-1.html">Panasonic la

Giant plasma TV big enough to show life-size images of people

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/plasma_shinoda.jpg" /> Japan-based <a href="http://www.shi-pla.com/">Shinoda Plasma</a> [JP] has developed a plasma TV that's 2 meters t

Vizio 50-inch plasma TV for $799, free shipping

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/p50-20a-product.jpg">Yama hama, here’s a pretty sweet deal on a gigantic plasma TV. Vizio is selling its 50-inch P50 model for $799 wit

Banged in the Olufsen: Tough times call for a $136,220 plasma TV

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/beo41031l.jpg">If you have a lot of disposable income or you work for AIG and need a way to spend that sweet, sweet bonus check for all y

Blu-ray and flat-panels sales are increasing in Japan

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/japanteenager.jpg">Shocker of the day, folks: modern A/V technology is selling well in Japan. DfK Marketing Services Japan just announced

Panasonic's sexy Z1 plasma gets a price

Love ’em or hate ’em, thin TVs are hot and Panasonic’s flagship plasma finally got a price and it’s ’bout right.
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